OPINION — If Gov. Katie Hobbs intended to be the playwright and heroine of this year’s state-budget melodrama, she’s written herself into a bind.
In Act I, she revealed her budget proposal for next fiscal year, which begins in July. Republican lawmakers lampooned, ridiculed and harshly criticized it.
In Act II, the Democrat Hobbs announced that she was walking away from private negotiations with GOP leadership until they publicly revealed their own proposed budget. That was presumably premised on the belief that the result would be too ugly for contemplation and give her the upper hand in resumed negotiations.
